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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moon_wizard" data-source="post: 2837497" data-attributes="member: 27657">In my game, I use the following setup:* Klooge - For text chat, maps, characters, combat and more.* Ventrilo - For voice chat* PCGen - For character managementJust like you are doing, I checked out all of the programs out there, before choosing one to game with.  I wasn't as much concerned about cost, but with capabilities.For Klooge, I found that the tabletop could be slightly confusing and cumbersome in some ways, but overall the program provided excellent support for D&D (our game) and each time we play I put a little more work into the data files to add more automation and/or house rules.  I like all the features, but most of all I like the ability to build in all the rules we use.  I found Fantasy Ground to be too light on rules support and not as extensible, Battlegrounds looks like it will be awhile just to catch up with the others (though with some good ideas), OpenRPG was a confused mess to install and get working, and the others were generally rudimentary.  BTW, the Battlegrounds site has some good links to all the various tabletop apps out there.We use PCGen to generate characters, since I have found it to be the most flexible program out there for developing characters.  Then, I created an XML template to export via PCGen to Klooge-compatible XML files which I then import.  So, all the character/rules setup from PCGen makes it into Klooge.For voice chat, I also checked out a number of services.  We started with Skype since we had 5 people (limit for voice conference at the time), but I found that it required a fair amount of bandwidth so that it would break up fairly often when transferring maps.  I think it was using peer-to-peer conferencing.  So, I got a Ventrilo server which works great.  Plus, we have one user with a baby who can use the text-to-speech feature to chat speak to us.Good gaming,John</blockquote>

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